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| 7 | [[caption-width-right:349:''[[{{Tagline}} The future is in her hands.]]'']] |
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| 9 | ->''"It's not really the brown girls from Jersey City who save the world."'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''Kamala Khan''' |
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| 12 | ''Ms. Marvel'' is a {{Superhero}} series developed by Bisha K. Ali (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'') for Creator/DisneyPlus. It is the 35th overall entry in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, the twelfth installment of Phase Four, and the seventh series produced by Creator/MarvelStudios. It is the second Disney+ series after ''{{Series/Moon Knight|2022}}'' not to be based on a previously established MCU character. The series is directed by Creator/AdilElArbiAndBilallFallah, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, and Meera Menon. |
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| 14 | The series centers on [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]] (Creator/ImanVellani), an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent and major fangirl of the Avengers… especially [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Carol Danvers, a.k.a. Captain Marvel]]. Her life changes forever when she gets strange powers of her own. |
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| 16 | Aramis Knight, Creator/MatthewLintz, Saagar Shaikh, Rish Shah, Zenobia Shroff, and Mohan Kapur also star. The series premiered on Creator/DisneyPlus June 8, 2022. Following the season, Kamala joined Carol Danvers (Creator/BrieLarson) and [[Series/WandaVision Monica Rambeau]] (Creator/TeyonahParris) in ''Film/{{The Marvels|2023}}'' in 2023. |
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| 18 | '''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/m9EX0f6V11Y Official Trailer 1]] |
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| 21 | !!''Ms. Marvel'' provides examples of: |
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| 23 | * AccidentalAthlete: Kamala does not do well in gym class, but even in the beginning of her superhero training she was showing her potential. |
| 24 | * AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Kamran shows up in episode 2, as Kamala is just learning to use her powers. In the comics, he showed up much later. |
| 25 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the third episode, we see that while [[spoiler:Kamran was a villain in the comics, he is on Kamala's side here. He is at least willing to try and persuade her to help the Djinn, but switches sides when they show their true colors.]] |
| 26 | * AdaptationalOriginConnection: |
| 27 | ** Downplayed. While the comics feature Zoe getting saved by Kamala like in the show, it's after she's knocked off of a dock by her drunk boyfriend. In the show, Kamala saves Zoe from falling after getting hit and lifted off the ground by a giant replica of Thor's hammer. |
| 28 | ** Inverted with Kamran, as in the comics he's introduced as Kamala's distant cousin. Here that connection isn't clearly shared, but episode three reveals [[spoiler:he, like Kamala, is descended from exiles from the dimension of Noor. Not necessarily family, not necessarily not]]. |
| 29 | ** In the comics, the [[spoiler:Destine family of ''ComicBook/ClanDestine'']] have no connection to Kamala Khan or the Inhumans; however, the change is that [[spoiler:Kamala is now descended from a Djinn, a.k.a. Genie, like the original Destine family, and all the Destines' counterparts here are now full-blooded Djinn]]. |
| 30 | * AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: |
| 31 | ** In the comics, Kamala only has the power to change the size and shape of her body, along with shapeshifting which she rarely uses. In the show, she has the power to create crystalline constructs, which she's shown using in a manner similar to her elongated limbs from the comics. |
| 32 | ** In the comics, [[spoiler:the Destine family have individual powers. Here, the Clandestines all have SuperStrength and some degree of invulnerability.]] |
| 33 | * AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Mildly downplayed. The Destine family were neutral or good in the ''ComicBook/ClanDestine'' comics (with one exception), but the inverse seems to be true in this series. Only mildly downplayed because their ultimate goal is sympathetic (though we don't know why they were exiled), and it's hinted they are on a schedule.]] |
| 34 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: Ms. Marvel's powers stem from Inhuman genetics in the comic books. Here, it's all but stated that she's actually [[spoiler:a Mutant]] in the sixth episode, with it being confirmed out-of-universe that that was the case. |
| 35 | * AdaptedOut: Josh Richardson, Zoe's ex-boyfriend in the comic and another bully/[[spoiler:eventual supervillain]] towards Kamala, isn't present for the origins of the character in the show. His asshole move of tricking Kamala into drinking vodka and orange juice is also given to a random partygoer. Time will tell if he shows up later on, however. |
| 36 | * AffectionateNickname: Kamala tends to call Nakia "Naks" for short. Nakia calls her KK. |
| 37 | * AllIsWellThatEndsWell: Like most in the superhero genre, Kamala ends up in multiple near-lethal situations, and just moves on. |
| 38 | * AllMuslimsAreArab: Averted, as this series goes out of its way to present the racial diversity of Muslims in the United States more realistically. Not only is the title character and her family of Pakistani heritage, but the series also features a Black American convert (or rather, revert) as a supporting character--Kamala's new sister-in-law--and both Black and White American Muslim reverts as background characters. |
| 39 | * AllPartOfTheShow: When Kamala's powers manifest at [=AvengerCon=], the audience thinks they are part of her cosplay and cheers her on. Even after she accidentally sets off a [[DisasterDominoes catastrophe]], most of them are still partying. |
| 40 | * AlphaBitch: Zoe Zimmer, much like in the comics. In the cinematic trailer, she's shown [[MaliciousMisnaming mispronouncing Kamala's name]] and snidely mocking her Avengers T-shirt. Just to hammer the point home, a pair of neon devil horns is doodled over her head in this scene. Though actually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the series proper. While she's still dismissive of Kamala and not all too friendly with her, she isn't outright antagonistic towards her either. By the end they end up becoming friends. |
| 41 | * ArcWords: |
| 42 | ** "What you seek is seeking you." |
| 43 | ** "Good isn't a thing you are, it's a thing you do." |
| 44 | * ArtShift: The Marvel Studios logo for the first trailer is stylized as though it were a sketchbook drawing. The opening title of the episodes is similarly shown as a montage of sketches. |
| 45 | * ArtisticLicenseHistory: While the show does do a great job educating viewers about the Partition of India, its lasting impact and the great pain it caused (without getting into the more disturbing details), it lays full blame for it on the British. In reality, the partition itself came at [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-62467438 the request of The Muslim Brotherhood]]. The Hindus simply wanted independence, while the British were tired of colonialism in general and just wanted to go home (hence why everything was so rushed), but the Muslims feared persecution from a Hindu Majority and thus wanted their own nation. |
| 46 | * AscendedFangirl: Kamala is absolutely bananas over the Avengers: drawing fan art, creating [=YouTube=] videos, cosplaying as her idol, Captain Marvel, and daydreaming of becoming a superhero. Then she gets powers and becomes a superhero for real, finding out in the process that it's a lot harder than she imagined. |
| 47 | * BetaOutfit: She spends 5 out of 6 episodes ''not'' wearing her comics-accurate costume. She instead either wears her Captain Marvel cosplay or just normal clothes plus the mask Bruno made for her. |
| 48 | * BigotWithABadge: Referenced by Cleary, who's clearly uncomfortable with his partner's more direct questioning of Zoe, asking specifically about racial characteristics, then follows up by saying that mosques [[TruthInTelevision are already under surveillance]]. |
| 49 | -->'''Cleary:''' Let's do the tri-state sweep. Search every temple, community center, and ... [sigh] and mosque. Just be respectful. The FBI is already surveilling them, you know that. |
| 50 | * BlandNameProduct: Circle Q resembles Circle K, a grocery store chain, right down to the red-and-white color scheme. |
| 51 | * BondingThroughSharedEarbuds: In the first episode, Kamala has to deal with two girls at school (implied to be a couple) listening to music through wireless ear-bud phones while standing right in front of her locker. In the second episode, a more confident Kamala politely asks them to move aside. |
| 52 | -->'''Kamala:''' Y'know what I love about airpods is that you don't actually have to stand that close to each other. [[ShipperOnDeck Love you guys, rooting for you, favorite couple, yeah.]] |
| 53 | * {{Bookends}}: |
| 54 | ** The first episode has Muneeba insisting she doesn't trust Kamala and making her a cheesy Hulk costume. The sixth has [[spoiler:Muneeba insisting that she and Yusuf can trust Kamala, and making her her official costume as Ms. Marvel]]. |
| 55 | ** In the first episode, Kamala says to Bruno, "It's not really the brown girls from Jersey City who save the world." Toward the end of the sixth episode, Yusuf reminds her that she saved Kamran and paraphrasing the Talmud, "If you save one life, well, you've saved the world." |
| 56 | * BullyingADragon: When the Clandestines are being escorted to their cells, the guards decide it is a good idea to start using excessive force. Needless to say, the tables are quickly turned. |
| 57 | * CapeBusters: Damage Control reappears as one of the primary antagonists of this series, and they seem to have gotten worse than how they were depicted in ''No Way Home''. In particular, Agent Cleary returns, and still doesn't have any problem with interrogating teenagers. His partner Agent Deever is even worse, casually trying to racially profile "Night Light" (even mockingly asking if she's "supposed to say Latinx now") which Cleary is [[EveryoneHasStandards visibly uncomfortable with]]. She then waltzes right into the mosque without a search warrant and expects to be given answers. And if that wasn't enough, [[spoiler:the Clandestines]] don't even last longer than five minutes in their (supposedly) max-security prison before [[CardboardPrison they easily escape to Karachi]] in the fourth episode, also serving as a show of their incompetence. |
| 58 | * CassandraTruth: Sana has told Muneeba numerous times that [[spoiler:they're descendants of magical beings from another dimension]], but she didn't believe her and was embarrassed that her mother had her head in the clouds and was :using fantastical tales in an attempt to justify Aisha abandoning her family during Partition, [[spoiler:not knowing that Aisha was actually murdered]]. |
| 59 | * TheChooserOfTheOne: After she first gains powers, Kamala wonders if the bracelet is this or if it was some sort of SentientPhlebotinum that could have chosen anyone else. |
| 60 | * CitywideEvacuation: During the Partition of India, we see the masses fleeing. |
| 61 | * CivvieSpandex: Kamala's first costume is a Captain Marvel helmet and branded jacket. Promotional material shows that her "official" costume includes regular sneakers. |
| 62 | * CompositeCharacter: The season finale stinger seems to set Kamala up as one to [[spoiler:Rick Jones, who for a time was bonded to Mar-Vell, with one being trapped in the Negative Zone while the other was not. The two were able to switch places with the Nega-Bands, which implies that Kamala's bangle is one of those bands.]] |
| 63 | * ContinuityNod: Damage Control's [[WaveMotionGun Wave Motion Guns]] look like downsized models of Coulson's Destroyer gun from ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. |
| 64 | * CoolCar: Kamran's car is tricked out, sleek on the outside, decked out with running lights on the inside. |
| 65 | * CuteClumsyGirl: Early in the show, Kamala's physical awkwardness as a teen girl with an overactive imagination is emphasized. She gets hit in the head with a ball in gym (multiple times), crashes her car during a driving exam because she [[HadTheSillyThingInReverse had it in reverse]], falls over while getting dressed in a hurry, bumps into people at school, and sets off DisasterDominoes at [=AvengerCon=]. None of it is intentional, and part of it is that her head is so full of daydreams that she dramatically overestimates her capabilities in reality. Her plan to acrobatically leap out of her bedroom window and vault from a tree branch is slightly less magnificent when she actually tries it. |
| 66 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: The Partition of India after World War II is first brought up during the dinner with Tyesha in the second episode and is a major event in the Kahn family's past. It was a horrible time, with hundreds of thousands of people, possibly millions, dying to religious and ethnic violence as refugees tried to cross the new borders in both directions. In keeping with the lighter and fluffier tone this series is trying to set, the violence is only hinted at, but Aamir lampshades it. Muneeba in particular is hit hard by this because her grandmother Aisha did something so infamous and unacceptable during the Partition that the Illumin-Aunties gossip about her and she refuses to talk about her. |
| 67 | -->'''Aamir:''' Every Pakistani family has a Partition Story, and none of them are good. |
| 68 | %%* TheDreaded: What the Clandestines quickly become. |
| 69 | %%* DumbassHasAPoint: Aamir pulls this several times. |
| 70 | * DoubleMeaningTitle: Ms. Marvel talks about the fan girl who worships Captain Marvel, and the fact that this story is about her as her name in Urdu means "Marvel" as Kamala is a marvel after her parents lost nearly all hope of birthing a daughter. |
| 71 | * EasterEgg: Just like ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}'', some episodes contain a hidden QR code that will take you to a full, free-to-read Ms. Marvel comic on the Marvel website. |
| 72 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: Kamala and Nakia shamelessly devour Kamran during his ShirtlessScene. |
| 73 | -->'''Both:''' ''Mash'Allah''.\ |
| 74 | '''Miguel:''' What does that mean?\ |
| 75 | '''Nakia:''' ''[[PrecisionFStrike DAMN]]''.\ |
| 76 | '''Bruno:''' [[GreenEyedMonster God has willed it.]][[note]]It's Arabic, and it means a general appreciation for a person or event, basically "this is the sort of thing Allah would like". And Allah would definitely like a nice ShirtlessScene.[[/note]] |
| 77 | * EpicFail: Kamala's driving test begins and ends with her speeding in reverse into the instructor's car behind her. |
| 78 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 79 | ** Sure, Zoe is pretty insensitive and a bit of a bully at times, however that doesn't mean she's willing to out the identity of her rescuer to two clearly [[RabidCop skeevy government agents]]. In the final episode, [[spoiler:she ends up helping Kamala as a thanks for saving her from the fall in [=AvengerCon=] and uploads a video to get the community out to protect Kamala from Damage Control.]] |
| 80 | ** Agent Cleary, [[Film/SpiderManNoWayHome who has previously been shown to have no qualms about using dirty tactics to elicit confessions from suspects]], grows silently disturbed when his partner, Agent Deever, uses racial profiling to try and evoke a confession. [[spoiler:Later, when he finds out that she's attacking a school to get at a pair of suspects, he firmly orders her to stand down. When she ignores him and doubles down on the raid, which also deals a ''massive'' blow to Damage Control's PR, he tells her in no uncertain terms that she is out of a job.]] |
| 81 | * EvilBrit: Played for Drama. Kamala's family was terrorized by British Imperialists during and before the Partition, with their local Indian partisans assisting them. |
| 82 | * {{Fanfic}}: Kamala writes superhero fan-fiction and is introduced as doing so. However, in a change from the comic, she's also shown editing, drawing, and voice-acting for videos she publishes online. |
| 83 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: The show drops multiple hints about Kamala's hidden family history that the show's creator promised would be the focus of the series. |
| 84 | ** In the first episode, it's the box of bangles that Muneeba's mother sends to Kamala, one of which clearly upsets Muneeba, and which turns out to be Kamala's power-unlocking bracelet. |
| 85 | ** Also in the first episode, the falafel cart guy mentions that corporate guys are buying up the whole neighborhood, which could be a simple MythologyGag to the HYDRA arc in the comics or a set-up for the second season. |
| 86 | ** In the second, it's the fact that her grandmother made it back onto the train, despite her injured father being unable to keep up with her, having "followed a trail of stars". |
| 87 | ** Also in the second, Kamran's mother says she's wanted to meet Kamala for a long time, despite her powers only having awakened a few days previous, suggesting he really ''is'' a distant cousin, like in the comics. |
| 88 | ** In the first episode, Aamir and Yusuf both make offhand references to the ''Djinn'', which at first glance looks like a reference to Islamic mythology. [[spoiler:In the third episode, we learn that Kamala is a Djinn-human hybrid through her mother's side of the family, and her great-grandmother was one of the Clandestine, a group of exiled ''Djinn'' seeking a way to return home.]] |
| 89 | ** Agent Deever's egregious racism when tracking down the "enhanced individual", while sadly TruthInTelevision for a law enforcement officer when dealing with a case involving a person of color, [[spoiler:is very similar to the government's racism in the comics towards [[ComicBook/XMen mutants]]. Bruno reveals after looking at Kamala's genes that she has "a mutation".]] |
| 90 | * GadgeteerGenius: Bruno has a laboratory atop the Circle Q shop where he works. In this lab, he builds voice-activated devices, including an Amazon Echo knock-off that he calls [[BlandNameProduct "Zuzu"]]. He also makes Kamala a pair of LED gloves for her cosplay. |
| 91 | * TheGenerationGap: One the central themes in the show. Kamala rebels against Muneeba's overprotection, with Muneeba not trusting Kamala to be on her own. Muneeba herself has issues with her mother, Sana, as Muneeba rebelled against Sana's parenting and ran away to America for a better life. Add in Sana's mom, Aisha mysteriously vanishing during Sana's youth, and you get ''8'' continuous decades of Mother/Daughter relationship problems! |
| 92 | * GenerationalSaga: The series centers on Kamala obtaining powers from a bangle that belonged to her grandmother and seeking knowledge about her ancestors that was hidden by her mother. |
| 93 | * GenerationalTrauma: Back during the Partition of India, Aisha became separated from her family in the chaos of thousands of future Pakistani citizens scrambling to find space on the trains. Her daughter Sana almost became lost as well, but was led back to her father by a mysterious "trail of stars". Sana spent the next seven decades obsessively trying to prove that the trail of stars actually existed, and consequently alienated her own daughter, Muneeba, who viewed her as a flighty and unreliable parent. Eventually, Muneeba and her husband Yusuf, seeking a better life for themselves and their newborn son Aamir, left for America, where they eventually had a second child, Kamala. In the present, Muneeba's disdain for the supernatural puts her at odds with the now-teenage Kamala, who has grown up in a world of superheroes, but her guilt about abandoning her mother has filled her with a fear that Kamala will eventually abandon her, causing her to try and stop Kamala from becoming more independent. |
| 94 | * GoodIsNotNice: The Red Daggers protect Pakistan from supernatural threats but if Kareem is any indication, they also have several outstanding warrants. |
| 95 | * GroundedForever: Kamala is grounded by her parents for ruining Aamir's wedding by pulling the fire alarm. Naturally, Kamala can't explain that she did this to save all the guests from the [=ClanDestine=]. Though since her family is much warmer to her after learning that she's "Night Light", it's implied they've figured out why she did it, have forgiven her for it, and removed this punishment. |
| 96 | -->'''Muneeba:''' You'll be serving out your sentence for years. |
| 97 | * HardLight: Kamala has the power to conjure up glowing constructs that behave like solid matter. She even refers to her constructs as "hard-light". Uncommonly, it is a plot point that these constructs have mass because Kamala has to consider related problems like weight, balance and anchoring when making them. |
| 98 | * HeroicLineage: Muneeba's reaction to the bangle that gives Kamala her powers and her constant references to dreamers in her family during the first episode strongly imply someone in the family was gifted. The second episode tells us that it was Kamala's great-grandmother, Aisha, who disappeared during the Partition, having saved her daughter with a "trail of stars" and left her family with an [[invoked]] OldShame that Muneeba refuses to talk about. |
| 99 | * HoldingHands: Kamran takes Kamala's hand while they're hiding from Aamir at the restaurant and again in the school while hiding from DCOD agents. |
| 100 | * HonoraryUncle: Not the TrueCompanions, this instead reflects the common practice in many cultures of referring to older people as "uncle" or "aunt", or if they're older, as "grandfather" or "grandmother", as a sign of respect. Hence everyone at the mosque are uncles and aunties. Even the Illumin-Aunties. |
| 101 | * HowDoIShotWeb: Kamala's TrainingMontage starts with a lot of EpicFail before she starts to get the hang of her powers. Even so, at the end of the episode, where she [[spoiler:saves a boy from falling to his death]], she still doesn't know how her powers work so it almost goes horribly wrong. |
| 102 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode is named after a collected edition of Kamala Khan comics, with the exception of "[[Recap/MsMarvel2022S1E4SeeingRed Seeing Red]]", which comes from a ''ComicBook/MarvelsVoices'' issue featuring Kamala. |
| 103 | * ImagineSpot: When explaining her plan to sneak out to [=AvengerCon=] to Bruno, Kamala imagines herself in a more impressive Captain Marvel costume, has her and Bruno pull off dangerous bike stunts with ease and has it end with winning the costume contest. Another fantasy sequence briefly seen in the trailer has her Kamran "seductively" biting on a large rose while looking at her. |
| 104 | * ImprobableFallingSave: DoubleSubverted in "[[Recap/MsMarvel2022S1E2Crushed Crushed]]". [[spoiler:When a young boy falls out of a tower, Kamala uses her powers to hold him up until she can get in position underneath him. He slips, and she tries to catch him, only for his weight and momentum to make her fall too. She manages to catch them both with her powers before they hit the ground.]] |
| 105 | * InsultBackfire: |
| 106 | ** Parental admonishment backfire. |
| 107 | --->'''Muneeba:''' Do you want to be good, like we raised you to be? Or do you want to be this cosmic head in the clouds person?\ |
| 108 | '''Kamala:''' ''[after Muneeba leaves and she looks at her glowing bracelet, smirking]'' ... Cosmic. |
| 109 | ** Muneeba has another instance, by saying that the mother of "Night Light" should be ashamed of herself. Little does Muneeba know that she ''is'' that Mother! |
| 110 | * {{Joisey}}: As Kamala says, she's a "brown girl from Jersey City." The region's significant South Asian and Muslim populations are shown through Kamala, her family, and friends, including a scene of her praying among a large group in the mosque. |
| 111 | * JumpedAtTheCall: While initially freaked out, Kamala is excited at the prospect of having powers like her hero, Captain Marvel. |
| 112 | * LighterAndSofter: Than most MCU fare, being aimed at teen girls. This is doubly true coming as it does on the heels of DarkerAndEdgier horror film ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' and the PsychologicalHorror series ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}''. |
| 113 | * LogoJoke: |
| 114 | ** The Marvel Studios logo sequence for the first episode ends with the logo performing an ArtShift to match the hand-drawn art style Kamala uses for her {{Fanfic}} at the beginning of the series. |
| 115 | ** While not a company logo itself, the Ms. Marvel logo and accompanying background(s) in the show's title sequence change every episode. Given how there are a '''lot''' of these variations (approximately around 12 per episode), the title sequence effectively takes the trope up to eleven. |
| 116 | ** The Marvel Studios logo for Episode 5 suddenly shifts [[spoiler:to something resembling an old newsreel, befitting the fact that most of the episode takes place during the Partition.]] |
| 117 | * MediumBlending: The first trailer includes comic-book-style doodles and speech bubbles over the live-action scenes up until Kamala gains her powers. |
| 118 | * MindScrew: When Kamala first dons the bracelet, she takes a brief trip to AnotherDimension (apparently only in her mind, as neither Bruno nor anyone else notices) full of glowing purple light and lots and lots of dark figures with glowing eyes. It's never mentioned again in the episode and no explanation is offered, fueling ''tons'' of fan speculation. |
| 119 | * MoodWhiplash: {{Invoked}} by Cleary during his interrogation of Zoe, getting her to warm up to him by pretending to be a fan, bonding with her, and then accusing Kamala of trying to kill her, then swerving into accusing her and Kamala of faking it. |
| 120 | * MusicalNod: In the season 1 finale, when Bruno tells Kamala she's a mutant, a riff from the iconic theme of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' is heard. |
| 121 | * MyBelovedSmother: |
| 122 | ** Muneeba is this to Kamala, forbidding her from attending [=AvengerCon=] and demanding she focus on her studies instead. Downplayed in the first episode when she attempts to reach a compromise with Kamala to go with her father, but plays the trope straight after Kamala unintentionally insults them. |
| 123 | ** Later on, she's happy to let Kamala go to Zoe's party, but on the condition that she returns before nine and that she'll use the door this time instead of sneaking in through the window. |
| 124 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Kamala is visibly distraught at herself after erupting at her parents for wanting to supervise her with matching costumes at [=AvengerCon=]. |
| 125 | -->'''Kamala:''' I think I made my dad cry. |
| 126 | * MythologyGag: |
| 127 | ** The [[http://www.impawards.com/tv/ms_marvel.html teaser poster]] for the series of Kamala looking out towards Manhattan is based on [[https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/49093/ms_marvel_2014_5 Issue #5]] of the original run. |
| 128 | ** There are nods to [[Characters/MsMarvelKamalaKhanRoguesGallery the Inventor]], Kamala's first big villain that she faced in the comics. |
| 129 | *** When Kamala recaps the events of the [[Film/AvengersEndgame Battle of Earth]] in the beginning of the first episode, a cockatiel is briefly seen on a wall as Kamala introduces Captain Marvel in her {{Fanfic}}. |
| 130 | *** Another reference to the Inventor can be found in the scene in the first episode where Kamala and Bruno are sitting on a rooftop: a sign behind them reads "Edison Electronics". The Inventor was a clone of UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison who ended up as a bird monstrosity due to a cockatiel contaminating the experiment ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, really]]). |
| 131 | ** Also during the recap, when Carol repeatedly shakes her head until she reaches her ''Avengers: Endgame'' hair-do, she cycles through her classic hairstyles from the comics. |
| 132 | ** The sign on the school guidance counselor's desk reads "GWW", referencing Kamala's co-creator and original writer, Creator/GWillowWilson. Wilson is also listed by name on the dedication plaque of Kamala's school. |
| 133 | ** Zoe's inaccurate Captain Marvel cosplay heavily resembles Carol Danvers' Ms. Marvel leotard. It also serves as SelfDeprecation on Marvel's part, as Bruno and Kamala deride the costume for being inaccurate and impractical. |
| 134 | ** Episode 6's opening has a FreezeFrameBonus with "est 2014" directly under the Ms. Marvel logo; a nod to when Kamala Khan made her solo debut in the comics. |
| 135 | ** The CreativeClosingCredits are full of artwork taken directly from the original comic. |
| 136 | ** Kamala's maternal grandmother is named Sana, after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana_Amanat Sana Amanat]], one of Kamala's co-creators. |
| 137 | ** The final episode finally gives us the line, "If you've saved one life, you've saved the world." from the comics; Kamala's true inspiration to be a hero. |
| 138 | * NeverTrustATrailer: The scene in the official trailer where Kamala discusses someone who finds her weird is after a scene of her and Zoe, implying she's talking about her school bully. In the series, she's in fact talking about Muneeba's dislike for her love of superheroes. |
| 139 | * NiceGuy: Kamala's friend Bruno is deeply supportive of her dreams, plans with her to go to [=AvengerCon=], helps her build her Captain Marvel costume, encourages her to ask permission of her parents (who love him), and tells her that she can save the world. It is strongly implied that he has a crush on her. |
| 140 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: By taking such a hard approach against the new enhanced individual, Agent Deever drove the community together to support Kamala even when they initially had mixed reactions to her. Agent Cleary had been trying to avoid this from the very beginning. |
| 141 | * NoBudget: InUniverse, Kamala's story of the Avengers defeating Thanos is made using only the sorts of materials available to a high school girl on an allowance, but it's still incredibly good (because it's actually made by a Hollywood team with a budget). |
| 142 | * PaintingTheMedium: |
| 143 | ** In the first episode, Kamala's daydreams are given form in the real world as animated graffiti on the walls around her. |
| 144 | ** Also in the first episode, the text messages that Kamala and Bruno exchange are not shown as text bubbles, but are instead integrated into the scenery, such as the pattern of stars from her nightlight, road markings, and neon signs in the windows of the Circle Q shop. Many of these are practical effects. |
| 145 | * ParentsAsPeople: Kamala's relationship with her parents are as fraught as any teenager's, with the added complication of being Muslim immigrants in New Jersey. They're clearly struggling and doing their best and love their daughter, but not quite connecting with her. |
| 146 | * PosterGalleryBedroom: Kamala's room is filled with posters and art regarding her nerdy interests, especially Captain Marvel. |
| 147 | * ProductionForeshadowing: In the first episode, Muneeba and Yusuf get the idea that he and Kamala should both dress up as Hulks for Avenger-Con. [[Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw The next Disney+ Marvel series really will have male and female Hulks.]] |
| 148 | * PronouncingMyNameForYou: Kamala explains that her name is pronounced "kuh-MAH-luh" rather than the more well-known "KAH-muh-luh." G. Willow Wilson went into detail about the pronunciation in a twitter thread, explaining that they're technically two different names: KAH-muh-luh is a Tamil name, while kuh-MAH-luh is a feminized form of the Urdu name Kamal, hence the different pronunciations. They just happen to be written the same. |
| 149 | * ProperlyParanoid: Despite their conversations being friendly, Aisha suspected Najma would turn against her, and in the end was proven correct. |
| 150 | * PsychoPartyMember: In Kamala's group, Kamran briefly becomes this when he loses control of his anger shortly after gaining his powers. |
| 151 | * RefugeInTheWest: As in real life, the Partition drove most of India's Muslim population towards Pakistan, the westernmost part of what had been British India, in order to escape growing persecution from India's Hindu majority. Kamala's great-grandmother, Aisha, died during the mad scramble for one of the westward trains. This would become the start of the Khan family's GenerationalTrauma, as Aisha's young daughter Sana spent the next seven decades obsessed with learning what became of her mother, causing her to neglect her own daughter, Muneeba, who in turn grew up to be overly protective of ''her'' daughter Kamala. |
| 152 | * RepurposedPopSong: The first official trailer is set to a cinematic remix of Music/TheWeeknd's "[[https://youtu.be/fHI8X4OXluQ Blinding Lights]]". |
| 153 | * SequelHook: TheStinger in "No Normal" has [[spoiler:Kamala's bracelet glowing before she's suddenly teleported who knows where and ''Carol Danvers'' ends up in her bedroom]] to set up the ''The Marvels'' film. |
| 154 | * SeriesContinuityError: "No Normal" shows the Statue of Liberty as it appears in the real world (with the green patina) despite the fact that the series is confirmed to take place after ''Film/SpidermanNoWayHome'' where it was partially restored. |
| 155 | * ShipperOnDeck: Kamala is evidently one for the two (implied lesbian) girls who hang out in front of her locker with shared wireless earbuds. |
| 156 | -->'''Kamala:''' Love you guys, rooting for you, favorite couple. |
| 157 | * ShirtlessScene: Kamran, the boy Kamala has a crush on, exits a pool shirtless. Cue the smitten stare from Kamala and EatingTheEyeCandy from both her and Nakia. |
| 158 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Kamala's parents have this dynamic. Her father is sweeter and closer to her, and shares her penchant for being a dreamer. Her mother is harsher and more judgmental, doing her best to keep Kamala grounded. |
| 159 | * SoapboxSadie: Nakia has shades of this, on the idealism end of the scale, running for the Mosque Board in order to demand they fix up the women's side of the mosque, which is falling apart, and complaining about their history class spending six weeks on the Greeks and Romans, and six minutes on the Persians and Byzantines. |
| 160 | -->'''Nakia:''' ''[shaking her head]'' Politics is ''dirty''. |
| 161 | * SpoilerCover: Kamala is briefly seen wearing her official Ms. Marvel outfit during Marvel's opening title card for ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. However, as of Episode 5, her outfit wasn't finished yet. |
| 162 | * TheStinger: [[spoiler:Kamala's bangle somehow makes her switch places with Carol Danvers.]] |
| 163 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: Generally how everyone reacts to Kamala's more outlandish plans. Unfortunately, when there are no other alternatives, those plans go through. |
| 164 | * TrainingMontage: Kamala gets one in the second episode, where she starts getting the hang of her new powers. |
| 165 | * ViewersAreGeniuses: Most of the elements of Islam and Pakistani culture and language are left unexplained, assuming the viewers will either be able to pick it up from context (ammi, abbu, beta) or will be willing to google it (Zamzam, Eid). |
| 166 | * VillainousValour: Even after Kamran turns against them, when prison guards electrocute Kamran the Clandestines are furious and tries to help him. Downplayed in that once his mother orders him to be left behind, they reluctantly obey their leader. |
| 167 | * WhamLine: |
| 168 | ** Bruno gives one in the final episode that leaves the door open to what will come in the broader MCU. |
| 169 | --->'''Bruno:''' ''[in regards to Kamala's powers]'' It's more like... [[spoiler:a ''mutation''.]] |
| 170 | ** This line is then accompanied by a wham ''sound'': [[spoiler:the first few notes of the 1992 ''X-Men'' theme!]] |
| 171 | * WhamShot: TheStinger has Kamala somehow teleported out of her bedroom and someone else taking her place. Said someone being ''[[spoiler:Carol Danvers!]]'' |
| 172 | * WhiteAndGreyMorality: Kamala is traditionally heroic and uses her powers for good. Najma and the Clan Destines just want to go home, but are willing to go to extreme lengths in order to do so. Agent Sadie Deever is closest thing to a truly villainous character, due to her being a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] and a RabidCop. |
| 173 | ---- |
| 174 | ->''"You sure are, and always have been, our own little Ms. Marvel."'' |
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